<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Boaz Rymland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:boaz@rymland.com">boaz@rymland.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">geoffrey mendelson wrote:<br>
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After 3 days of running it can not make a connection to the outisde world. I have to reboot to get it to work. Other computers runing Ubuntu have the same problem, 3 days after they were booted, but ones running other operating systems don't.<br>
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I had a similar issue that was resolved when I switched to a PCI ethernet adapter with different chipset.<br>
In my case it seemed as if the network "total loss" was related to long periods of idle time - overnight and such. I suspected that whatever power management or other idle-time related mechanism wasn't functioning ok. Replacing the NIC resolved it.<br>
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Ubuntu is not perfect.<br>
I hope the descriptions here are not a sign of a major issue with this release.<br>
To the good or worse, its (arguably) one of the best Linux distros out there and most likely the first recommended by many to be your grandma's Windows replacement.<br>
I also get irritated by it at times, but I also got irritated by Gentoo (eventually it took me took much time to simply maintain it) and you can find similar problems in any distro - even if you a true Linux zealot :-)<br>
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</div></div></blockquote><div>I still have some problems, - strange sound problems.<br>Also, my laptop doesn't shut down anymore, i have to do it manually with ctrl-sysrq-S ctrl-sysrq-O.<br>
(i have fixed it by editing /etc/init.d/halt and removing the '-i' and
'-h' from the halt command, which are not really needed in linux. now
it shuts down.)<br>
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but the major issue i see, is that many things in ubuntu are gui dependant:<br>
1. I have no network connection unless i login to an X session. -
previously, if i was in a hurry I would have switch to VT1 and do
whatever i liked without waiting for the X session to settle and open a
terminal. currently I can't do that with network dependent things, as
there is no network without logging in to an X session.<br>
2. many things are only configurable by GUI and not by command line, so i can not configure via VT or remotely via ssh.<br>
<br>It seems that wanting to make linux more "DUMB-USER FRIENDLY", ubuntu
forgot that linux is more than word processors and browsers. it is a
system that makes everything more productable by using scripts, pipes,
filters (e.g. sed, awk, etc ) etc...<br>
they focused more on making it MS-WIDOWS-LIKE.<br>
I appreciate ubuntu making it more easier to use, but they shouldn't forget its a linux system ...<br>
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